γονέων (goneon)

γονέων is an Ancient Greek form of γονεύς, meaning “parent”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of γονάω, “beget”.

Found 164 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.46: Βίων τὸ μὲν γένος ἦν Βορυσθενίτης, ὧντινων δὲ γονέων καὶ ἀφʼ οἵων πραγμάτων ἧξεν ἐπὶ φιλοσοφίαν, αὐτὸς Ἀντιγόνῳ διασαφεῖ. ἐρομένου γὰρ αὐτὸν τίς πόθεν εἶς ἀνδρῶν; …

Flavius Josephus, Against Apion 2.206: Γονέων τιμὴν μετὰ τὴν πρὸς θεὸν δευτέραν ἔταξεν καὶ τὸν οὐκ ἀμειβόμενον τὰς παρʼ αὐτῶν χάριτας ἀλλʼ εἰς ὁτιοῦν ἐλλείποντα λευσθησόμενον παραδίδωσι. καὶ παντὸς τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου τιμὴν ἔχειν τοὺς νέους φησίν, ἐπεὶ πρεσβύτατον ὁ θεός.

All forms of γονεύς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.